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...posh places, he hires Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore), a clever young man just down from university, to help the boys impress their imminent inquisitors. Say the unexpected, he tells them; nurture the odd fact, such as that at the time of the Reformation "14 foreskins of Christ" had been preserved. Don't just be right; that's boring. Make an impression! Hector (Richard Griffiths), the boys' huge, studiously eccentric English teacher, doesn't care where they end up, doesn't believe in the utility of literature. "Useless Knowledge," that's his passion, "the department of Why Bother?" The boys know...
...would be contradictory to commit, with this film, sins for which Christ died." Frantisek Tondra, Slovakian Bishop, rebuking religious leaders and activists for screening pirated copies of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ...
...movie theaters, and it's planning a press event featuring Gore and Franken to coincide with the premiere on May 24. Other organizations, including Environmental Defense, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Energy Future Coalition, are following suit. Is this environmentalism's answer to The Passion of the Christ...
...weirdest crap that's ever been seen on broadcast TV, because, well, why not? A drama about the rough-and-tumble world of professional plumbing inspectors! A reality show about dogs - directed and produced by dogs! A family sitcom by the guy who just made a movie about Jesus Christ getting tortured to death...
...ride the "Left Behind" apocalyptic craze - although in what may be a slightly tone-deaf way. The series focuses on characters who are working feverishly to head off Armageddon, which is a weird way to capitalize on the millennialism that fuels "Left Behind" and "The Passion of the Christ"; for true believers, after all, the end of the world - at least, the return of Jesus and the establishment of His kingdom - is a good thing. But hey, there's no such thing in TV as a script that can't be twiddled with. Why should the Bible be any different...